# University of Chicago

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-chicago/  
**Website:** https://www.uchicago.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 44

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890. It operates no central developer portal and publishes no institution-wide API programme, and the one gated portal it does run — an Azure API Management front end for Azure OpenAI at ai-api-portal-dev.uchicago.edu — serves a certificate that does not match its own hostname and, with verification disabled, answers a bare Azure Application Gateway 404, so it is not a public surface. What it does operate is unusually real for a university, because UChicago is a genuine PRODUCER of open-source data infrastructure rather than only a buyer of it: the Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS, github.com/uc-cdis) authors the Gen3 data-commons platform and runs its own reference commons at gen3.datacommons.io, a domain registered to CDIS at the University. The OpenAPI documents in this repository are CTDS's own contracts (info.contact cdis@uchicago.edu, termsOfService cdis.uchicago.edu), not a vendor's running under the institution's name. Alongside that the institution operates a Shibboleth identity provider whose InCommon SAML metadata is public (entityID urn:mace:incommon:uchicago.edu), Knowledge@UChicago on self-hosted InvenioRDM 13.1 with a live REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 responder advertising DataCite metadata, the OCHRE ancient-studies data service, and IIIF Presentation 3.0 and Image 2.0 endpoints for library digital collections. Course catalog and registrar data remain behind PeopleSoft authentication, the VuFind catalog API is deployed with its API permissions denied, and there is no open-data portal — data.uchicago.edu is the Office of Institutional Analysis's reporting site, not a machine-readable catalog.

## Kin Score — 49.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+11.8 from 37.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 58.4 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 57.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (44)

- **University of Chicago Shibboleth Identity Provider — InCommon SAML Metadata** — The University of Chicago's Shibboleth identity provider publishes its SAML 2.0 metadata document publicly. entityID urn:mace:incommon:uchicago.edu places the institution in the...
- **Knowledge@UChicago Repository REST API** — Knowledge@UChicago is the University's institutional repository, running self-hosted InvenioRDM 13.1 on the institution's own domain. Its REST API returns records, communities a...
- **Knowledge@UChicago OAI-PMH Endpoint** — OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the University of Chicago institutional repository. ?verb=Identify returns repositoryName "UChicago Knowledge", protocolVersion 2.0, granular...
- **OCHRE Data Service API** — OCHRE (Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment) is the University of Chicago's item-level research database for ancient studies, maintained by the OCHRE Data Service...
- **University of Chicago Library IIIF Presentation API** — IIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests for the University of Chicago Library's digital collections, addressed by ARK (naming authority 61001) at iiif-collection.lib.uchicago.edu/ob...
- **University of Chicago Library IIIF Image API** — IIIF Image API Level 2 service for the University of Chicago Library, running Loris. The service root self-identifies: "This is Loris, an image server that implements the IIIF I...
- **University of Chicago Library Catalog API (VuFind)** — The Library's discovery layer is VuFind, self-hosted at catalog.lib.uchicago.edu and forked in the institution's own GitHub organization (uchicago-library/vufind). VuFind ships ...
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — admin/user API** — The admin/user API from University of Chicago — 4 operation(s) for admin/user.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — alias API** — create an alias for an entity stored in an external system managed by some other authority
- **University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — bulk API** — bulk endpoints
- **University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — bundle API** — Bundle endpoints.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Peregrine — core metadata API** — The core metadata API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for core metadata.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials/api API** — API Credentials
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials API** — Access credentials
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials/cdis API** — Deprecated! Use credentials/api
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials/google API** — Google Credentials
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials/{provider} API** — Other provider credentials
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — data API** — Generate signed URLs
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Peregrine — datasets API** — The datasets API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for datasets.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — dictionary API** — The dictionary API from University of Chicago — 8 operation(s) for dictionary.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — DOS API** — Data Object Service Retrieval Endpoints
- **University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — DRS API** — Data Repository Service Retrieval Endpoints
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — dry run API** — The dry run API from University of Chicago — 12 operation(s) for dry run.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — entity API** — The entity API from University of Chicago — 7 operation(s) for entity.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — export API** — The export API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for export.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — file API** — The file API from University of Chicago — 5 operation(s) for file.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — global API** — Search for an alias or index, potentially even a distributed search.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — google API** — Google functionality
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Peregrine — graphql API** — GraphQL Queries
- **University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — GUID API** — Endpoints for generation of Gen3 GUIDs
- **University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — index API** — Associate a file (object) with a unique id, and store some basic metadata.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — keys API** — Get public keys used to validate JWTs issued by fence
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — link API** — Link access identities
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — login API** — The login API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for login.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — logout API** — Log out the current user
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — oauth2 API** — Authorization and token management
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — OIDC API** — The OIDC API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for oidc.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — privacy-policy API** — The privacy-policy API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for privacy-policy.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — program API** — The program API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for program.
- **University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — project API** — The project API from University of Chicago — 6 operation(s) for project.
- …and 4 more, listed in full on the page.

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Chicago Agentic Access** — 176 operations · 101 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **University Of Chicago Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **University Of Chicago Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Chicago Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Private Research University, United States, Illinois, Research Data, Research Repository, Identity Federation, OAI-PMH, IIIF, Open-Source, Data Commons, Digital Collections, Research Computing

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